Techmeme: China paper warns Google may pay price for hacking claims (Chris Buckley/Reuters)

12:50 PM ET, June 6, 2011

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WWDC 2011 Prelude — What I Know — If I were to publish everything I know regarding tomorrow's announcements, it would be a short and decidedly unsensational article. What I know are a handful of minor features at the edges. The big picture regarding iOS 5 and iCloud — and how the two interrelate — is an utter mystery to me.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Is This iOS 5? Dunno, But It's Likely The Right Idea — Could it be? Is this it? iOS 5?! I honestly have absolutely no clue. But it certainly seems like it at least could have the right idea. — Tomorrow morning, Apple is set to preview iOS 5 for the first time during the WWDC keynote.

Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:

WWDC 2011: iCrowd lines up for iCloud — A few hours ahead of Apple's keynote, which will kick off WWDC 2011 at 10am Pacific in San Francisco's Moscone West, the line is already stretching around two blocks. Seth took the above video at 6:30am Pacific time. Check out the green Apple guys working diligently to compress the line.

Discussion: AllThingsD, SAI, TUAW, Yahoo! News, 9 to 5 Mac, TechCrunch, SFGate, AppleInsider, Softpedia News and 9 to 5 Mac

Chris Buckley / Reuters:

China paper warns Google may pay price for hacking claims — (Reuters) - Google has become a “political tool” vilifying the Chinese government, an official Beijing newspaper said on Monday, warning that the U.S. Internet giant's statements about hacking attacks traced to China could hurt its business.

Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal: Cyberspies Target China Experts

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Surprise! Facebook Credits and Apple's iTunes Play Nice With Each Other. — Facebook has Credits, Apple has iTunes, and then there's the plethora of points and coins found on the major consoles and online services. — For game players, it's the equivalent of traveling in Europe before the Euro.

Discussion: MacStories and The Next Web

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Xbox.com leaks E3 secrets early: Voice Search, ‘new look’ for XBL, Halo 4, and Halo: CE remake — Quick refreshing of Microsoft's E3 landing page has apparently revealed some of the things it will be announcing within the hour at its E3 press conference, including new features for Xbox Live …

Discussion: Fast Company, VentureBeat, BGR, Microsoft News, WMPoweruser.com, Ars Technica, GeekWire and Electronista

Gary A Swaby / The Koalition:
The Official E3 2011 Schedule And Live Stream List

Discussion: Gizmodo, YouTube Blog, GeekWire and Xbox Live's Major Nelson

Evelyn M. Rusli / DealBook:

Working With Lady Gaga to Bridge Music and Technology — Soon after Apple started its music-centric social network Ping last year, Steven P. Jobs reached out to Lady Gaga and her business manager, Troy Carter, for feedback. — At the company's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. …

Discussion: Betabeat, CNET News, TechCrunch, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and Stowe Boyd, more at Mediagazer »

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Apple faces antitrust complaint over iCloud in Germany — It seems a little odd for an as-yet unrevealed product to be the subject of an antitrust complaint, but that's what appears to have happened in Europe. — Music streaming service Simfy says that it has submitted a complaint …

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, mocoNews, Geeky-Gadgets, Pocket-lint and WebProNews, Thanks:m4tt

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Eric Schmidt And Others Invest In Rich Media Display Ad Startup Spongecell — Spongecell, a startup that places rich media ads in display advertisements, has raised a new round of financing led by Eric Schmidt and Jim Pallotta, Chairman and Managing Director of Raptor Group.

Discussion: alarm:clock, WebProNews, Betabeat, MediaPost, Softpedia News, paidContent and Adotas

Francis Tan / The Next Web:

Sina Weibo preparing English site, to go head on against Twitter in 2-3 months — TechWeb reports that according to informed sources, Sina Weibo is “actively preparing” to release its microblogging platform in English to go directly head on against Twitter, in about 2-3 months.

Discussion: Digital Trends, The Tech Trade, Penn Olson, paidContent:UK, Softpedia News, AllTwitter and SAI

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Is YouTube Killing Music Piracy? — The music industry has witnessed some dramatic changes in recent years, even when piracy is left out of the picture. In just a decade the Internet and the MP3 revolution have redefined people's music consumption habits.

Discussion: ringtonia.com

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

EBay acquires Magento, builds a commerce OS — EBay said it is buying up the rest of ecommerce platform Magento, which it previously had a 49 percent stake in, in a bid to build a broader commerce operating system that spans online, mobile, social and local.

Discussion: AllThingsD, Mashable! and WebProNews

Glenn Fleishman / Ars Technica:

In-flight Internet: the view from 35,000 feet and three years — In-flight Internet access has had its up and downs, and, yes, this article will have its share of aviation-related puns. An aborted launch by Boeing in 2004 seemed to ground the idea, but a second attempt in 2008 has remained aloft.

Discussion: Venture Capital Dispatch, textually.org and Slashdot

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft needs to tell Windows 8 developers now about ‘Jupiter’ and Silverlight — Telling only part of a story can be worse than keeping completely mum, as Microsoft officials seem to be discovering with Windows 8. — Last week during the first public preview of the Windows 8 user interface …

Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com and I'm Just Being Manan

Joanna Stern / This is my next:
Windows 8: features, screenshots, and everything else you need to know

Discussion: LiveSide.net

Lionel Menchaca / Dell Community:
Microsoft's Windows 8 Gamble Just Might Work

Discussion: FierceCIO News, Tim Anderson's ITWriting and Computerworld, Thanks:dell

Steve Cheney / steve's blog:

Why Groupon is Worth $25 Billion Dollars — Admittedly, Groupon is a work in progress. They continue to spend insane amounts of money to acquire customers and merchants to try to extend their dual-sided network effect with consumers and merchants. Many people see this as unsustainable, some adamant it's all just a Ponzi scheme.

Discussion: SAI, Screenwerk, Bloomberg, @erickschonfeld and @msuster

Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
How does Groupon work? Is the business model sustainable?

Discussion: broadstuff and parislemon, Thanks:dondodge

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